The 2nd Army Corps (russian: 2-й армейский корпус) was a formation in the
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, Romanization of Russian, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the earl ...
that was active during
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
. It was headquartered in
Grodno
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prior to the outbreak of the war, and took part in the
Battle of Tannenberg in August 1914.
[2-й армейский корпус , 2nd Army Corps](_blank)
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Composition
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26th Infantry Division
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43rd Infantry Division
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2nd Cavalry Division
Commanders
*1907:
Kyprian Kandratovich
*1912-1914:
Sergei Scheidemann
* 08.06.1915 — 30.05.1917 :
Vasily Flug
See also
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Imperial Russian Army formations and units (1914)
This article lists Imperial Russian Army formations and units in 1914 prior to World War I mobilisation for the Russian invasion of Prussia and the liberation Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia.
The prewar chain of command was: military distr ...
Notes
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Military units and formations established in 1877
Military units and formations disestablished in 1917
1877 establishments in the Russian Empire